GENERA. 
Tab. XI. d 
The parts of the fruit of Vanilla planifolia ; from a sketch 
by Mr. Bauer in 1807. 
1 A ripe seed-pod of Vanilla planifolia; natural size. 
2. Transverse section of the same pod ; magnified 6* diameters. 
3. Longitudinal section of a portion of the same; magnified 6 diameters. 
4. Longitudinal section of one lobe of the placenta; magnified 25 dia¬ 
meters. 
5. Several seeds : at oaa perfect ripe seeds ; at b an unripe seed; at c 
an abortive seed; and at d the outer shell is bruised, to bring the 
nucleus in sight, the seed being too small for dissection ; magnified 
200 diameters. 
